CS 268 Web Science

This course introduces Web Science and provides an overview of the field that shows the interdisciplinary perspective on the web, that has been fostered among others by the Web Science Trust[1].

Credit: 3 u.

Course Goals

At the end of the semester, the students should be able to:
  • know the idea of Web Science as it is established in the scientific community around the Web Science Initiative;
  • understand the rang of disciplines, research methods and theoretical approaches required to analyze, critique and develop the web; and
  • understand the relevance of the different perspective of the domain and identify contributions on areas of interest within the domain.

Topics

The Web and its Science
Engineering the Web
The Analysis of the Web
Social Aspects
Web Governance, Security and Standards

References:


[1] Web Science Trust (2011). "Web Science" (http://webscience.org). URL: http://webscience.org/. Last Accessed: November 17, 2011.
[2] Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) "Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space" (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool. URL: http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[3] Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze (2008). "Introduction to Information Retrieval". Cambridge University Press. URL:
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.
[4] Linking Government Open Government Data. TWC LOGD. URL: http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/tutorials. Last Accessed: Nov. 18, 2011.